DEBRIEF

Thank you for taking part in this study, which investigates the extent to which different grammatical constructions, like active or passive voice sentences, influence the ways in which people take perspectives when describing the actions of others. To do this, we asked you to describe interactions between people using phrases provided, which required you to mention one person before the other and consequently choose their perspective. For example, in the “arguing” scenes, the perspective of Person A has been taken in the following sentence structure, as this is who has been mentioned first:
Person A is arguing with Person B.

We are interested in whether people are more likely to describe the scene from the perspective of the person who was most like them, e.g. men taking the perspective of the man in the photograph when the scene depicts a man and a woman, white people taking the perspective of the white person in the photograph over the black person, etc.
We are also interested in how attitudes towards same-gender relationships and same-race relationships might influence behaviour on this task.

If you have any questions about this study or your participation, please email Jessica Brough at j.brough@ed.ac.uk.

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